USF Author of “Farm
City” Celebrated in Marin

"Farm City" by USF's Novella Carpenter is One Book One Marin's book of the year.

“Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer,” by best-selling
author, blogger,
and USF environmental studies instructor Novella Carpenter, has been named Marin
County’s must-read book of the year.

KQED broadcast

One Book One Marin (OBOM) named Carpenter’s memoir the
region’s “one book” for 2014, making it the centerpiece for dozens of book
discussions, urban-farming workshops, and other events in the coming weeks. The program culminates April 30 with a discussion about urban agriculture
between Carpenter and KQED-radio’s Michael Krasny at Dominican University.

From Ghost Town to goats

“Farm City” chronicles Carpenter’s efforts to turn a rundown
house and lot in Oakland’s blighted Ghost Town neighborhood into an urban oasis
of chickens, bees, goats, and an ever-expanding community garden. This spring,
she’s teaching classes on community gardening and writing about urban agriculture
at USF.